Moses and Eleazar show the brazen serpent on a cross: a man suffering from snakebite is comforted by his wife and child. Photograph attributed to F.W. Edwards, 1895, after G. Tinworth, 187-.

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Edwards, Francis William, active approximately 1887-1895.

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Moses and Eleazar show the brazen serpent on a cross: a man suffering from snakebite is comforted by his wife and child. Photograph attributed to F.W. Edwards, 1895, after G. Tinworth, 187-.